He finds himself commentating game 1 of the quarter-finals of the LBA coach playoffs Sandro Gamba, on newsstands on the pages of the local edition of La Repubblica, on match day 2 between Olimpia Milano and Dolomiti Energia Trentino: “My friend Arturo and I were on the sidelines, Arthur Kenney there with his nice bow tie, both of us shocked. Not only and not so much by the defeat, which is already shocking, but by the attitude: the players who don’t say goodbye, who don’t help each other, who don’t get along and who challenge the coach’s decisions on the pitch. It’s the worst thing that can happen in a match, never. they shouldn’t even be questioned, they’re so obvious. I hope there was someone in the club who gave the team a nice little speech yesterday, pointing fingers in their faces if necessary, to bring everyone back to their responsibilities and to the only possible common goal. , which is the championship. And the good name of the property, the most important in Italian basketball. We need to demonstrate now, starting tonight, we need to choose what we want to be: a good set of players (maybe a little overrated) or a team worthy of a title. If I were Ettore Messina, between carrot and stick I would have no doubts in choosing the former, with a hard face and pedaling straight. And then I would think about the rest, starting with the pace of the game: the high pace of the first quarter is the one most congenial to this Armani, but to apply it you need a very different defense, aggressive in contact and perhaps extended, ready on the passing lines: I didn’t see much passers in Trento’s vest, a crack to slip into.
